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that is why in the united states congress earlier this year, a bipartisan majority said we need to extend those tax credits. the oil industry, the gas industry, but coal industry and the nuclear industry have benefited from tens of billions of dollars of subsidies for many years. it is time to get a level playing field. in the meantime, we are playing catch up for the energy of the future. we will not run out of wind or solar. eventually, we will run out of oil and coal. the others will get cheaper. if you go to california or nevada or colorado, those are the energy future -- that is why there is bipartisan support for the clean energy credit. host: gene clearly did not answer your question, which was could the solar and wind sources work without subsidies? guest: we do not find them working without subsidies anywhere purified natural gas and petroleum working fine without subsidies. that is the oil companies get tens of billions of dollars of subsidies per year. that is not right. even to get the $4 billion the president talks about, you get all that from section 199 tax credit. that goe
that is why in the united states congress earlier this year, a bipartisan majority said we need to extend those tax credits. the oil industry, the gas industry, but coal industry and the nuclear industry have benefited from tens of billions of dollars of subsidies for many years. it is time to get a level playing field. in the meantime, we are playing catch up for the energy of the future. we will not run out of wind or solar. eventually, we will run out of oil and coal. the others will get...
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the united states cause. the attorney general is a department's secretary, the head of the justice department. guest: the solicitor general reports to the attorney general. we know that the most recent supreme court justice had been solicitor general. she was president obama's for solicitor general. host: ohio. good morning. how are you? caller: good morning. host: how is the studying going? caller: pretty well. i would like to give a shout out to my teacher. can you please explain the difference between the speaker of the house, the majority leader, and the party? -- and a party whip? guest: i would love to. when you look at congress, you do not have to look at the leaders. you asked a terrific question. i would know the distinction both in the house and the senate. the most powerful person in the house of representatives clearly is the speaker of the house. run by the majority party. currently, the republicans have the majority of seats in the house sense of the speaker, speaker boehner, is a republican. hi
the united states cause. the attorney general is a department's secretary, the head of the justice department. guest: the solicitor general reports to the attorney general. we know that the most recent supreme court justice had been solicitor general. she was president obama's for solicitor general. host: ohio. good morning. how are you? caller: good morning. host: how is the studying going? caller: pretty well. i would like to give a shout out to my teacher. can you please explain the...
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aauw state organizations have 100,000 members and owners throughout the united states. we have branches and chapters in every congressional district in the country. we are on 600 college and university campuses with our partners. we are hosting a series of nonpartisan voter education training events across the country. we will train and support outreach volunteers who will collaborate on voter education and turn out campaign, targeting women in their states. in april, the action fund will be hiring on the ground staff to coordinate volunteer activity and education efforts. we will be producing and disturbing public service announcements, campaign materials, and other resources specifically designed to underscore the impact on the issues women care most about. in the months leading up to the election day 2012, we will be using all the resources of the action fund, our social media reach, our mailing list, our relationship with our partners, and to drive home the message that elections matter for women and girls and to go and voted. i encourage you and your organizations.
aauw state organizations have 100,000 members and owners throughout the united states. we have branches and chapters in every congressional district in the country. we are on 600 college and university campuses with our partners. we are hosting a series of nonpartisan voter education training events across the country. we will train and support outreach volunteers who will collaborate on voter education and turn out campaign, targeting women in their states. in april, the action fund will be...
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god bless the united states of america. [applause] ♪ >> this evening, remarks from president obama, then discussion with the constitution party's presidential nominee, and then "q&a" with nancy gibbs about the latest book. the bipartisan association is hosting a discussion about iran's nuclear program. the group represents the five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany. we will hear from the former middle east advisor to president clinton. that begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and we will have live coverage of the former undersecretary for political affairs and the u.s. ambassador to it is ahead of the two day summit. on friday, president obama concluded his two day trip to the west coast with a visit to reno, nev. where he highlighted his home under the financing initiative. as part of his to do this, he is urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would reduce barriers for home owners to refinance at a lower rate. it has increased 50% nationwide. [applause] >> he did not have to stand back. that is your sh
god bless the united states of america. [applause] ♪ >> this evening, remarks from president obama, then discussion with the constitution party's presidential nominee, and then "q&a" with nancy gibbs about the latest book. the bipartisan association is hosting a discussion about iran's nuclear program. the group represents the five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany. we will hear from the former middle east advisor to president clinton. that begins...
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the united states. there is this strong group in syria that has abandoned the opposition. there is another strong band of diehard regime supporters. the most important group is in the middle. they are sitting on the fence looking at the experience of iraq on one hand, the possibility of more democracy on the other hand. which way to jump. host: lots more calls coming in. kellogg, minnesota. chester is up next. caller: i would like to thank renee from mississippi for tipping us off to the arab league report. it said we have been shipping terrorists in through turkey and slipping across the border into syria. i have a strong nose for propaganda. the propaganda i am hearing out of our news media and government is a terrific stench. this is more of our geopolitical oil along with their secondis it not true that our ned and iri have been going over to syria with suitcases of money? is it true m-16 and our cia and special ops are already in syria providing communications equipment? we are trying to destabiliz
the united states. there is this strong group in syria that has abandoned the opposition. there is another strong band of diehard regime supporters. the most important group is in the middle. they are sitting on the fence looking at the experience of iraq on one hand, the possibility of more democracy on the other hand. which way to jump. host: lots more calls coming in. kellogg, minnesota. chester is up next. caller: i would like to thank renee from mississippi for tipping us off to the arab...
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states. i am hopeful that we can reach a credible, sustainable fiscal path for our country. the only way we are going to do that is if we work together in a bipartisan fashion. the gentleman and i were very successful in working on the export-import bank legislation in a bipartisan fashion in which we got over 300 votes on the floor of the house floor. the gentleman was unable to make the signing but it was signed this week. i think a very positive step forward. i appreciated the gentleman's work on that piece of legislation, but i would like to urge the gentleman because of the extraordinarily short number odays that we have left to meet to focus on what i think some people call it a fiscal train wreck, some people call it a fiscal perfect storm, some people call it a fiscal cliff, whatever it is is will have a great impact, not only on the confidence that we can work and to make effective plans for meeting that challenge but also for getting our country on a fiscally sustainable path. i don
states. i am hopeful that we can reach a credible, sustainable fiscal path for our country. the only way we are going to do that is if we work together in a bipartisan fashion. the gentleman and i were very successful in working on the export-import bank legislation in a bipartisan fashion in which we got over 300 votes on the floor of the house floor. the gentleman was unable to make the signing but it was signed this week. i think a very positive step forward. i appreciated the gentleman's...
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we need to pull out -- pulled out and the structure money out and bring it back to the united states of america. we need a big bridge near washington, missouri. we need more highways and missouri. we need dam projects on the missouri river. i disagree with that. >> the center mention something about your position on competitive contracts. did you want to respond? >> i believe competitive bidding is a good thing. what you have going in iraq is pretty interesting. you had people who were terrorists. anything anybody did, they would load up or shoot anybody associated with it. -- they would blow it up or shoot anybody associated with it. the attacks on the idea of roads in afghanistan, the big economy and afghanistan is heroin. her win, you can put on a motorcycle -- heroin, you can put on a motorcycle and take somewhere. i have a kid serving in afghanistan. i he a kid almost killed in iraq. i understand the cost of what we are doing. i want to do it in the right way. >> did you want an additional 45 seconds? >>here was nothing about the contract and in iraq that did that require a comp
we need to pull out -- pulled out and the structure money out and bring it back to the united states of america. we need a big bridge near washington, missouri. we need more highways and missouri. we need dam projects on the missouri river. i disagree with that. >> the center mention something about your position on competitive contracts. did you want to respond? >> i believe competitive bidding is a good thing. what you have going in iraq is pretty interesting. you had people who...
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it was about the fundamental attempt by the president of the united states to misuse and abuse the constitution, obstruct justice, and to try to undermine peace electoral process. texted has been 40 years since the watergate break-in. >> if you really look at it, they read or tampered with everyone's vote by saying this was not just something done, it was not just dirty tricks, it was a strategic plan aimed at
it was about the fundamental attempt by the president of the united states to misuse and abuse the constitution, obstruct justice, and to try to undermine peace electoral process. texted has been 40 years since the watergate break-in. >> if you really look at it, they read or tampered with everyone's vote by saying this was not just something done, it was not just dirty tricks, it was a strategic plan aimed at
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we are not willing to see that in the ad states. -- in the united states. obviously europe is different. because of the large muslim immigrant populations there. but there is much prospect of islam is some catching on in the united states. we think it is not terribly threatening and it is now a creek without a country, except iran, which is a different kind of islamism. the sunni grande has not found a home. it is not a nation state that threatens us. if we can kill the leaders through this capacity that this administration has developed, we can contain this virus until it dies off. i am not sure that is true. that seems to be one reason why we have not acted. another is, as speakers have mentioned, our unease with an ideology that has religious provenance. americans have a respect for religious conviction. not always true in europe these days. we do not want to pick fights with 1.5 million muslims across 150 countries in the world. the idea of a clash of civilizations -- there is no reason for us to subscribe to it. we look at this conflict as a debate bet
we are not willing to see that in the ad states. -- in the united states. obviously europe is different. because of the large muslim immigrant populations there. but there is much prospect of islam is some catching on in the united states. we think it is not terribly threatening and it is now a creek without a country, except iran, which is a different kind of islamism. the sunni grande has not found a home. it is not a nation state that threatens us. if we can kill the leaders through this...
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states -- you see them all over the united states. and i made the statement very strongly few years ago saying, look, they have the second largest oil reserves in the world. people don't know that, right after saudi arabia. why are we not at least paying ourselves back out of that oil? [applause] and these stupid politicians said -- and some of the press, by the wycombe in all fairness. i think -- by the way, in all fairness. but the student politician -- the stupid politicians say, can you believe? how horrible it has been. we have given them democracy. they will not have democracy, folks. there will be the meanest and hardest and greatest hitter of the united states that will takeover. and what have we done and what have we gotten? i actually said take the oil, leave them plenty. at least give us back our $1.50 trillion good in the old days, when we were smart and we were strong, we had a war and, if we won the war, we take it. we take what we need. it is called to the victor belongs the spoils. [applause] so look at iraq. we go in
states -- you see them all over the united states. and i made the statement very strongly few years ago saying, look, they have the second largest oil reserves in the world. people don't know that, right after saudi arabia. why are we not at least paying ourselves back out of that oil? [applause] and these stupid politicians said -- and some of the press, by the wycombe in all fairness. i think -- by the way, in all fairness. but the student politician -- the stupid politicians say, can you...
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-- they took a draft bill and put it in the united states code as is. and that draft bill embodied every corrupt deal you can imagine to get it passed the finish line. the state of connecticut, gatorade for the state of florida. it bought off the hospitals and the pharmaceuticals. and the corrupt deal they made with the insurance companies are pretty simple. they said we want to regulate you out of control. we will tell you every single way to operate your business. if you accept it, we will force everyone in america to buy your product. we will force them to buy your product, whether you want to or not. we will sweeten the pot with a couple billion dollars of tax subsidies. that is the bill we have now. it is corrupt. the unconstitutional mandate is at the heart of how this whole thing operates. the federal government does not have the power to force us to purchase a product. the united states supreme court had better do the right thing and strike down the mandate. [applause] but when they strike down the let us just say when they strike down the manda
-- they took a draft bill and put it in the united states code as is. and that draft bill embodied every corrupt deal you can imagine to get it passed the finish line. the state of connecticut, gatorade for the state of florida. it bought off the hospitals and the pharmaceuticals. and the corrupt deal they made with the insurance companies are pretty simple. they said we want to regulate you out of control. we will tell you every single way to operate your business. if you accept it, we will...
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think to the greatest travesty to confront the united states since 1911. the bombing of pearl harbor. think about how surprised the response was from which they decided to attack us on in 1941 had it turned out to be completely wrong. their intention was not to and mobilize american forces, they wanted to break our spirit of assistance. to take us out of the game before we started playing. how could we not be demoralized but a sudden and unthinkable attack? we were not demoralized? we will mobilize the and they knew that the instant that first bomb was dropped on hawaii it would be the end of the imperialists empire. it was even the japanese admiral that said, i fear we have awakened a sleeping giant. the american spirit is one of resilience. the greatest mistake that our enemies have ever made is to underestimate our respond -- to resolve the. in these times, you must all exude the highest degrees of resolve and that commitment to free enterprise principles. we see the economic crisis spreading from portugal to italy to ireland to greece and it to spain.
think to the greatest travesty to confront the united states since 1911. the bombing of pearl harbor. think about how surprised the response was from which they decided to attack us on in 1941 had it turned out to be completely wrong. their intention was not to and mobilize american forces, they wanted to break our spirit of assistance. to take us out of the game before we started playing. how could we not be demoralized but a sudden and unthinkable attack? we were not demoralized? we will...
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states mint. these need to be worthy representations of our nation and our civic ideals. the commission has been active the engaged in realizing the full potential of the mall as the nation's public ceremonial space as envisioned in the mcmillan plan of 1902. they've reviewed construction on the mall since 1910, including playing a key role in the design of the lincoln memorial almost 100 years ago. most recently he had additions at or near the landscape. in addition, the commission contributes an important voice in improving design for many operational elements added to national mall sites. these include security plans for the lincoln, washington, jefferson memorials, and smithsonian institution museums, the design of the potomac park levee at 17th street northwest, and a current reconstruction of the reflecting pool and mall lawn panels. in its active role, the commission also worked closely with many public and private organizations having an interest in the mall. the commission has cooperated
states mint. these need to be worthy representations of our nation and our civic ideals. the commission has been active the engaged in realizing the full potential of the mall as the nation's public ceremonial space as envisioned in the mcmillan plan of 1902. they've reviewed construction on the mall since 1910, including playing a key role in the design of the lincoln memorial almost 100 years ago. most recently he had additions at or near the landscape. in addition, the commission contributes...